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Dear father and mother:
Seoul, Korea,
June 28, 1931
| What did you do to celebrate the twenty-fifth of June?
I am sure vou thought of something fine. Unexpectedly I did
a little celebrating. There was foreignfprayer meeting at Bro.
Gerdine's house, after which they asked me to come in for supper.
They said they were going to have kooksu (Korean spaghetti) but
had no kimchi to go with itw I offered to furnish the kimchi;
and so I went home for a brass bowl of it. But as it turned out,
the cook did not bring in any kooksu. However we had a good
meal, and then all the compound, Gerdine? Stokes, Anderson, and
Speidel families, and I gathered in the Stokes' front yard for
ice cream. The families combined on it, and cherry pie was
served a la mode. Afterwards we had music and a talk^fest in
the Stokes' parlor. When I mentioned that you would like to
come to Korea if you could sell a house, Bro. Stokes said:
*When they come, you tell them to come straight to our house
and stay as long as they want to."
come; and he was very earnest In his request.
He did not say, "if" you
The next day, Friday, one of the W.ondong young men
invited Wontmoksa and his wife, Bro. and Mrs. Stokes, Margaret
Billingsley, and me to a restaurant for dinner by way of welcoming
Won moksa and Bro. Stokes and Marg^ret Billingsley back to Wondong
church after Conference. Charvis Stokes and a Korean man were
also there. It was a foreign meal, and so I did not enjoy it
much; but the dessert was ice cream and cake, which were all right.
| Yesterday Hon moksa and two Bible school students and I
spent the morning out at "North-of-the-Wall Village" outside
Little East Gate visiting, and had a very good time. Met several
giod peopleatwho wllImprobably join our new church there.
Yesterday afternoon I gave a guitar lesson to a graduate
of Ewha College at the request of one of the missionary teachers.
The girl had heard the guitar on phonograph records but had never
heard the instrument direct. But she was determined to learn to
play It, and somehow!got an instrument and a book jand was all
ready to take lessons. There was no one at the college who could
teach It, but someone suggested .me, . I found the teacher had
prepared for my coming with strawberry punch and cookies which
she served to us before the lesson. I have promised to give another
lesson July 6. '
A request came this morning to preach and play my guitar
at the celebration of the fifth anniversary of the organization
of'the Epworth League a*t a church near where I held the revival
at "Heavenly Peace, this spring. An exhibit and special programs
are planned for f£ie days, July 13-18. And the Wonsan District
wants me to come near the end of July or first of-August. The
Sunday School Summer Convent Ion* meets July 21 for ten days in the
Diamond Mts. near where I am to preach, and so I may take that in
too. With a trip to the Pochun circuit that should complete my
summer vacation.
This morning I preached at Chakyo church. After church
I met with a committee to plan for the Vacation Bible School, and
then some one invited us down stairs for a bowl of cold kfeoksu, a
summer time favorite in Korea.

Dear father and mother:
Seoul, Korea,
June 28, 1931
| What did you do to celebrate the twenty-fifth of June?
I am sure vou thought of something fine. Unexpectedly I did
a little celebrating. There was foreignfprayer meeting at Bro.
Gerdine's house, after which they asked me to come in for supper.
They said they were going to have kooksu (Korean spaghetti) but
had no kimchi to go with itw I offered to furnish the kimchi;
and so I went home for a brass bowl of it. But as it turned out,
the cook did not bring in any kooksu. However we had a good
meal, and then all the compound, Gerdine? Stokes, Anderson, and
Speidel families, and I gathered in the Stokes' front yard for
ice cream. The families combined on it, and cherry pie was
served a la mode. Afterwards we had music and a talk^fest in
the Stokes' parlor. When I mentioned that you would like to
come to Korea if you could sell a house, Bro. Stokes said:
*When they come, you tell them to come straight to our house
and stay as long as they want to."
come; and he was very earnest In his request.
He did not say, "if" you
The next day, Friday, one of the W.ondong young men
invited Wontmoksa and his wife, Bro. and Mrs. Stokes, Margaret
Billingsley, and me to a restaurant for dinner by way of welcoming
Won moksa and Bro. Stokes and Marg^ret Billingsley back to Wondong
church after Conference. Charvis Stokes and a Korean man were
also there. It was a foreign meal, and so I did not enjoy it
much; but the dessert was ice cream and cake, which were all right.
| Yesterday Hon moksa and two Bible school students and I
spent the morning out at "North-of-the-Wall Village" outside
Little East Gate visiting, and had a very good time. Met several
giod peopleatwho wllImprobably join our new church there.
Yesterday afternoon I gave a guitar lesson to a graduate
of Ewha College at the request of one of the missionary teachers.
The girl had heard the guitar on phonograph records but had never
heard the instrument direct. But she was determined to learn to
play It, and somehow!got an instrument and a book jand was all
ready to take lessons. There was no one at the college who could
teach It, but someone suggested .me, . I found the teacher had
prepared for my coming with strawberry punch and cookies which
she served to us before the lesson. I have promised to give another
lesson July 6. '
A request came this morning to preach and play my guitar
at the celebration of the fifth anniversary of the organization
of'the Epworth League a*t a church near where I held the revival
at "Heavenly Peace, this spring. An exhibit and special programs
are planned for f£ie days, July 13-18. And the Wonsan District
wants me to come near the end of July or first of-August. The
Sunday School Summer Convent Ion* meets July 21 for ten days in the
Diamond Mts. near where I am to preach, and so I may take that in
too. With a trip to the Pochun circuit that should complete my
summer vacation.
This morning I preached at Chakyo church. After church
I met with a committee to plan for the Vacation Bible School, and
then some one invited us down stairs for a bowl of cold kfeoksu, a
summer time favorite in Korea.